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A Brief Primer On Using Dig For DNS Lookups In Linux Mint / Ubuntu
Mar 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on A Brief Primer On Using Dig For DNS Lookups In Linux Mint / Ubuntu
Here is a quick way to get all the DNS information about a specific domain / website when using Linux Mint / Ubuntu :
1. Open Terminal and type : dig <domain name>
Basically dig stands for Digital Information Groper (what an acronym!) and it queries DNS servers to get the appropriate records from it. In case you want a brief idea about what exactly is DNS, check here.
One cool thing about using...